951 private quotes tagged war

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.” — John Adams

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“There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.” — Noam Chomsky

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“What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.” — Dennis Miller

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“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“To secure peace is to prepare for war.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.” — Adam Schiff

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“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” — Leon Trotsky

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“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.” — Katherine Dunn

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“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.” — Kin Hubbard

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“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” — Jimmy Carter

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“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?” — Virginia Woolf

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“When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.” — Maya Lin

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“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” — George W. Bush

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“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.” — Charles Wilson

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“I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.” — Tony Blair

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“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.” — Stephen King

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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” — Omar N. Bradley

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“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.” — Thomas Merton

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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.” — Maria Montessori

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“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.” — Duke of Wellington

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